Achromobacter xylosoxidans Isolation and Antibiotic Resistance from Non-respiratory Tract Clinical Samples: A Decade-Long Retrospective Study at a Tertiary Hospital in Hungary
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Achromobacter xylosoxidans;, non-fermenting;, Gram-negative;, epidemiology;, immunocompromised, ; retrospective, clinical microbiology;, medicine.Abstract
The purpose of this retrospective 10-year research was to determine the prevalence of A. xylosoxidans isolated
from non-respiratory tract samples of adult inpatients and outpatients and the degrees of antibiotic resistance at a
tertiary-care teaching hospital in Szeged, Hungary. The research strategy used electronic data collecting. Mueller-
Hinton agar disk diffusion and, where necessary, E-tests were used to determine antimicrobial susceptibility.
The results showed that a total of 68 distinct A. xylosoxidans isolates were discovered during the course of the 10-
year research period (6.83.6/year, range: 0-11 isolates). Isolation was more common in the second half of the
research period (2013-2017) compared to the first half (2008-2017), when it was experienced by n=22. Fifty-one of
the 68 isolates were from hospitalized patients. There were 32 female patients and 48 male patients, for a female-to-
male ratio of 0.89. A. xylosoxidans isolates (n=68) showed similar susceptibilities.
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